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Medieval Literature
“
Como dice Aristóteles, y es cosa verdadera,
el mundo por dos cosas trabaja: la primera,
por tener mantenencia, y la otra cosa era
por haber juntamiento con hembra placentera.
Si lo dijese yo, podríaseme culpar;
dícelo gran filósofo, no se me ha de acusar;
de lo que dice el sabio no debemos dudar,
pues por obra se prueba el sabio y su hablar.
Que dice verdad el sabio claramente se prueba:
hombres, aves, animales, toda bestia de cueva,
quiere, según natura, compaña siempre nueva,
y mucho más el
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― Libro de buen amor
― Libro de buen amor
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Newcomers to manuscripts sometimes ask what such books tell us about the societies that created them. At one level, these Gospel Books describe nothing, for they are not local chronicles but standard Latin translations of religious texts from far away. At the same time, this is itself extraordinarily revealing about Ireland. No one knows how literacy and Christianity had first reached the islands of Ireland, possibly through North Africa. This was clearly no primitive backwater but a civilizatio
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― Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
― Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
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